Kinoma Notes

Mobile Village’s Go Mobile newsletter brings you the web’s top mobile and wireless stories to your email in-box twice a month.

Mobile Village also grants yearly awards — their Mobile Star Awards — for the best mobile products and solutions.

Kinoma is honored to announce that all of our products have been nominated:

• Kinoma Player 4 EX for Best Mobile Media Utility
• Kinoma Producer 4 for Best Mobile Media Utility
• Kinoma Media Guide for Best Mobile Web Content Aggregator

Voting is quick and easy. Just:

• Sign up for the Go Mobile newsletter, then
• Vote for your favorite Kinoma products

We’d very much appreciate your vote. Thank you for being a Kinoma supporter!

Video and audio compression can be confusing. File formats, codecs, bitrates…it’s enough to deter anyone who would otherwise love to bring their favorite movies and TV shows with them to watch on the go.

We created Kinoma Producer to cut out the confusion. Kinoma Producer is the easiest way to move your video from your PC or Mac to your Treo, iPod or PSP.

You don’t have to know anything about compression or encoding to use Kinoma Producer. It’s got built-in presets for over 40 devices, so just tell it what device you have and it’ll take care of the details.

If you like to tweak, Kinoma Producer lets you fine tune encoding settings however you like. You can even save your settings as custom presets.

Best of all, there’s now a free trial. Get yours here.

• Kinoma Producer 4 free trial
• Kinoma Producer 4 product page

Writing for PalmAddicts, James Barisic just posted a great overview of the tools he uses to take his TV with him.

Kinoma Producer does all the hard work dealing with the complicated screen size and frame rate conversions for your device and it does it with ease.

Pick the file to convert, pick your output device, pick the quality that you want and let it get on with it. It converts at a good speed and the resulting file is about 10% of the size of the original.

For those with other devices, Kinoma Producer can cope with Apple, PSP, Palm and a range of other things too including a generic option — so everyone’s a winner.

Kinoma have made yet another simple-to-use little bit of excellence. A useful piece of software that works just as you would want it to if you had written it yourself.

Thanks, James! We appreciate the kind words, and we’re glad Kinoma Producer has a place in your utility belt.

• Want a personal video recorder? Got a Palm? Read on… [Palm Addicts]